I've never done it before, but I have decided that I will have a theme for our family and home this Advent/Christmas season. When I saw this wall hanging on our trip, it spoke to me...
Thinking about a time of year that can have a tendency to be more rushed than reflective and harried than peaceful, these words caused me to pause and wonder what my home would be like if these words represented how we would be doing the holiday season.
Comfort - not comfortable, for that's something entirely different - but to choose activities and traditions that bring rest and peace to our hearts...not just something to fill up every night from now until December 24th.
Joy - not an obsession with being merry, the ho-ho-ho of it all - but things that reflect real, lasting joy and the peace that comes only from above. Choosing to do things with meaning, building into a sense of contributing the God's Kingdom work.
And of course, I was drawn instantly to the "&" because it looks very much like and treble clef and that represents the power music has (at least in my life) to stir up feelings of comfort and joy, peace, hope and love all in a few notes!
So my mission for the next 28 days is to ponder, wait and celebrate, to consider the Gift of my Saviour in terms of comfort and joy and to be a source of both of these in my home and to the people around me.
May your unfailing love be my comfort...
Let your compassion come to me that I may live,
for your law is my delight.
psalm 119:76-77
you directed such a beautiful 1st Advent Sunday service this morning becky. i felt SO uplifted. i loved every song that was sung and just how it was all put together. thank you.
ReplyDelete1. I like your definitions of comfort and joy!
ReplyDelete2. I couldn't reply to your comment about the cookie exchange, but I really think that you should do it next year-or why do it at Christmas? You could do it in the winter when everyone is feeling that seasonal depression. Maybe a Valentines Day something? Anyways, it took me a while to find 14 girls that were interested, but not that I've found them, they are so fun! We all look forward to it, have fun, and have a really great time! I'll be sure to post pictures.
Meg
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